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NetworkText.com Unites Internet and Mobile Phones to Revolutionize Group Communications
BELLINGHAM, Wash., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Remember when you sent a blast email to all your friends but half of them were away from their computers and didn't get your message -- so they showed up at the wrong restaurant for your birthday party? Or what about the time you typed nine text messages in a row to organize your buddies for a pick-up basketball game? NetworkText.com aims to change all that.
NetworkText is the brainchild of Derek Johnson and Matt Pelo, two childhood friends, enterprising college students and active fraternity members who know a thing or two about the challenges of communicating effectively with large groups of people in the digital age.
They formed their company to revolutionize modern-day group communications. NetworkText.com is the first website that allows groups to easily send text messages to their members' cell phones via the Internet. No more serial dialing or typing. No more repeating yourself ad infinitum. One message and you're done.
Best of all, it's free.
NetworkText does not collect a fee for registering your group. There are no contracts. And there is no charge to send or receive messages (although your cell phone service provider's normal text messaging rates apply).
Johnson and Pelo have organized their business around unobtrusive yet highly targeted advertiser support. Each time your friends or classmates receive a text from you, it will include a short line from an advertiser -- maybe a major soft drink company or perhaps just the new coffeehouse down the street -- within the message.
"Hey, we're college students, too," explain Derek Johnson, chief executive officer of networkText.com, a senior at the University of Houston, and a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity. "Matt and I know that our friends -- or their parents -- pay for texting. So when we conceived of networkText, we realized that for it to be successful it had to be free. Our fathers, longtime business partners, were our first investors and they saw the power in that."
It is simple to join networkText, create a group, add members or remove them, and select members and send messages. There is only one advertising line per text message, and networkText does not permit advertisers to send additional messages to its users.
"NetworkText is an exciting opportunity, for us and for our future members, because we are living in an unprecedented information age," explained Matt Pelo, chief financial officer of networkText.com and a junior at San Diego State University where he is president of his fraternity, Lambda Chi Alpha. "People are on the go and we are creating a medium for them to share information without delays."
NetworkText's service is currently available across the United States to everyone with access to an Internet connection. Athletic teams, school organizations, fraternities and sororities nationwide have already joined. NetworkText registered more than 2,000 members in the company's first few days.
Visit http://www.networktext.com/ for more information.
About NetworkText.com
NetworkText is the first website that allows groups to easily coordinate their members by sending text messages to their cell phones via the Internet. Founded by college students Derek Johnson and Matt Pelo, who grew up together in Bellingham, Washington, the company is poised to start a revolution in group communication.
NetworkText.com
CONTACT: Jeannine Schechter of Fresh PR, +1-310-482-3461,jeannine@freshpr.net, for NetworkText.com
Web site: http://www.networktext.com/
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